Reply #107: OK, that simply won't do...

[warren pease]

You write: "Show me some sort of modern motivational techniques that uses depressing, end-is-near tactics to lead a charge."

What exactly do you think BushCo has been selling since their very own Reichstag Fire? They've gleefully hopscotched over the charred or pulverized corpses of the WTC to sell their apocalyptic vision of constant war which, by definition, can never end against a mythical, Goldstein-like enemy who probably doesn't exist.

And, right according to script, the slack-jawed chowder heads who subscribe to the mainstream version of reality here in Dumbfuckistan, the world capital of attention deficit disorder, have morphed from a bunch of swaggering pseudo hard-asses into a herd of panicked livestock -- afraid of their own shadows, afraid of swarthy men with facial hair, afraid of immigrants, afraid of intellect, afraid of the left, afraid of running out of visqueen and duct tape, afraid of life itself.

This campaign of depressing, end-is-near tactics has been unsuccessful how, exactly? Have americans bought into the war rationales pitched to them by the usual M$M hucksters and pimps? Has the opposition party raised more than a token finger to even delay the BushCo steamroller?

Do you see any significant signs of effective resistance to the BushCo/PNAC agenda, which can be summarized as: destroy the lower and middle classes, demoralize and scare them into submission, transfer their remaining wealth to the top 1 percent, keep their kids dumb and compliant, bankrupt them through unpayable revolving credit lines, fake mortgages and obscene medical bills, maintain a constant state of war for the benefit of armaments makers and as a proven mechanism for social control, isolate them by casting their peers as their enemies, ratchet up the ambient level of free-floating angst and fear, blame the non-existent threat of international terrorism for all these miseries, wrap the whole thing in phony patriotism and simplistic evangelical religiosity, then fade to black amid ritualistic chants of USA! USA! USA!

Sounds like one hell of a successful PR campaign to me. And in case anyone still refuses to be duped or pummeled into submission, there's always the iron fist of the patriot acts, the military commissions act, NPSD 51/HSPD-20 and those two EOs that allow the feds to steal all your stuff if you oppose their "humanitarian efforts" in Iraq or disagree with their assessment of who the bad guys are in Syria and Lebanon.

These suppression systems are real, on the books and cleared for takeoff. They just haven't been fully implemented yet.

You say you'll finally get the point if Bush doesn't leave office in 2009. I say that it'll be a miracle if he does. The right wing has been waiting for something like Bush/Cheney to occupy the white house for perhaps 100 years or more. Do you honestly suppose that the people who pull the administration's strings will just crawl back under their rocks because time's up? Do you really think these megalomaniacs and mass murderers will simply go away just because the Constitution says they have to? Given their historic disregard for any Constitutional provisions that hamper their agenda, what makes you think they'll suddenly develop a reverence for the law of the land and go quietly?

I wish I could share your optimism/naivete. However, not being real big on self-deception and recognizing the repetitive behavioral patterns of this horrible administration, I wouldn't bet a dime on an orderly transition. Rather, I'd bet on martial law here and expansion of the genocide in the Middle East passing as foreign policy.

And what the hell are you going to do then? Shake your fist at the robocops guarding the white house gates?


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